ACLU, Other Groups File Suit
To Derail a New Net-Smut Law

An Interactive Journal News Roundup

Updated Oct. 23, 1998 12:28 a.m. ET

The American Civil Liberties Union and several other groups filed suit in Philadelphia Thursday seeking to stop enforcement of a new federal law intended to restrict minors' access to online pornography.

Advocates of the Child Online Protection Act say it is narrowly tailored to pursue commercial pornographers. Unlike the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which the Supreme Court gutted, the new law regulates only commercial Web...